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Beware of Labour’s
Pro-Family Agenda

By

Patricia Morgan

Updated Oct. 8, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

For nearly two decades, Tory governments have presided over the escalating fragmentation of the family, assailing it with punitive taxation, a welfare system geared to single parents, and legislation progressively weakening marriage. The family agenda is now expected to become the rallying cry of the left. Labour leader Tony Blair has spoken up for stable two-parent homes and, by all accounts, he is perfectly sincere.

This has sown disquiet among the progressive establishment, which has been overwhelmingly resistant to...